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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily
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comedy news. Good lineup tonight for Comics for Kamala. Mark
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Marin Already it's a great show, right, Kevin Neilan, Lori
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kil Martin, Danny Zucker, Mas Jabroni, Dana Gould, Cristella Alonso
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and Tom Arnold tonight at seven thirty at the Comedy
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Store in a, Los Angeles. Let's see general admission of
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forty six dollars and forty cents. I'll tell you though,
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Comics for Kamala needs a better website. I hope the
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administration runs a little better than that. All right, another
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show if you want to turn against all your favorite
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comedians get mad at their politics. Gary Goleman doesn't care.
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He's doing Comics for Kamala on Monday in New York City,
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Gary Goleman and Friends. The friends are Zach Zimmerman and
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Britney Carney. That's at Stand Up New York, the new
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location at two twenty one West forty sixth Street. Oh wait,
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there's another show on Tuesday in Miami. This one's at
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the Miami Improv in Esther Coo Larry Dog of Freddy Stebbens,
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Larry fish More, Christopher Sharon Pfeiffer, and Bear Clarker Webb
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not exactly the name brands that are performing tonight. That's
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Tuesday Night and Miami. So I want to keep things
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fair here. I don't see any sort of Trump comedy festival.
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If I see what I will tell you about it.
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I try to think to myself, who would even be
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in it? I googled comedians who support Trump. Roseanne came up,
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and no one else came up, And I'm like, all right,
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from memory, who could be on comedians for Trump? I
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guess we could get Nick Depollo and Jim Brewer, Rob Schneider, Guttfeld.
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I'm sure Gutfeld would love to come. I mean, google
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conservative comedians. See what comes up? Really, nothing other than
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the headline. Rob Schneider's comedy is so bad it's even
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offending Republicans. Somebody put together a tourist I can talk
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about it. Paul Starr did a big giant article about
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kill Tony Tony Hinchcliffe said, I want our audience to
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be able to hear these different perspectives from everybody where
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they're from, how they grew up, what they do, what
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makes them different. It's all critical to the flow of
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the show. I got to remember to watch those kill
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Tony MSG shows. They're up on YouTube. We're all different,
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but we all laugh at a lot of the same stuff,
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and it brings us together. The show's so raw, so organic,
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so live. There's never been anything like that before, and
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I can't believe that I'm the one that did it.
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A little white trash Italian kid from an all black
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neighborhood in Youngstown, Ohio. It's just the America dream and
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I couldn't be more ecstatic about it all. Tony told
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Theo Vaughn on the This Past Weekend podcast about when
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Tony made his comedy debutt for months and then blanked
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out on stage. He was honest. He turned into his
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own forgetfulness and turned that into a three minute improvised set.
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He bombed in the weeks after with the jokes he'd rehearsed.
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To this day, Tony is more comfortable off script. As
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for his recent performance at the Tom Brady Roast, Tony
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Hinchcliffe said, I was adapting it until the very last second.
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Everything was changing. I was making edits, adding things, cutting
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things out, repositioning things, I've ppared a lot of those
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jokes for the roast, but I didn't know how and
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when I was going to do it. I decided very
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early on when I got there that I was going
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to do them from left to right and be the
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only one who moves around. I was trying to figure
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out where the main camera was seeing so they could
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see me and also the person I was roasting, so
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I was directing that while performing. It was a lot
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of work and a lot of adrenaline, a real blur,
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but also an absolute blast in one of the highlights
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of my life. Tony's one of those fifteen year overnight successes,
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and said, fifteen years of writing on ROAs and performing
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stand up led me to this position. To be able
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to just execute up there. It wasn't a magical moment.
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It was almost two decades of continuous practice. The kid
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that used to roast everybody in school fully grown forty
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years old up there doing what I was built to do.
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Tom Brady deserves all the credit in the world for
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even letting me have that position and giving a young
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buck a chance like that. The first episode of Kill
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Tony was shot back in twenty thirteen in the belly
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room of LA's Comedy Store in front of fifteen people
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with four sign ups. Hinchcliff's manager Alex Murray. I know
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Alex a little bit from way back in the day.
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Alex said, the Netflix Comedy Festival made us a low offer,
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not necessarily financially, but in terms of venue capacity. We
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told the booker, you're really underestimating the power of this audience.
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We just kept passing and passing, and only they made
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us an offer for the YouTube theater, which is six
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thousand seats. We sold out in ten minutes on the
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pre sale. The booker called and was like, what is
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this and we were like, I told you. The second
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show we had it was at the Kia Forum that
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sold out within days. We're being careful of how many
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of these live shows we do because Tony goes out
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of pocket for production. Sometimes we want to make them
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special and unique. Madison Square Garden, same thing. The first
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show sold out in a day, then we added the
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second show, which ended up selling out. Not a single
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dollar in advertising was used to achieve this. The Kill
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Tony YouTube channel has one point six million subscribers. They
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only got to a million back in April, so that'll
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show you how fast it's growing. Alex Murray said, I
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represent other big ax. Yes he does, and we got
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to promote those shows. But when it comes to spending
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money on promotion, Tony's like, nah, trust me, I got this.
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We listened and he's right. He's been right one hundred
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percent of the time. Tony said, in my mind, we're
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at times absolutely eating Saturday Night Lives lunch she and
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gillis doing. Is Donald Trump amen on that it's so
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much fun when Chane shows up on Kill Tony, it
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is so much fun. Adam Ray, Is, Joe Biden, doctor
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Phil and many more they could have had. That these
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are the new stars, the backbone of modern day comedy,
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and having work with these guys forever and finally putting
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them in positions to be seen in their finest light
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doing their funnies stuff, watching on the break character because
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they're cracking each other up. It's just priceless. It's not
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written now, it's not rehearsed. Everything is improvised and that's
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the secret sauce of Killed Tony. Tony moved the show
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from la to Austin during the pandemic and says it's
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made me a happier person. The people are nicer, the
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artists better, the food is better. My spirit is filled,
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which makes me a better host who makes better decisions
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for the show. Normally go to New York or LA
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to make it and try to take things to the
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next level. You don't go anywhere else to thrive. But
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that's what we did, and there's nowhere I'd rather be
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that at home here in Austin, Texas. It fills in
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my heart with so much joy and it's my favorite
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place in the world. Joe Rogan said, it's a better
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place for comedy, and you don't have the traffic. It's
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not a grind. The club situation is amazing. There's cap City,
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there's the Creek in the Cave, There's the Vulcan, There's
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the Sunset Strip, the Mothership, the Black Rabbit, the Velveta Room,
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Shakespeare's You realize you don't have to be stuck in
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this crazy city of insane traffic and crime. Hinchcliff added
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having Shane Gillis here as a death blow to the
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other cities. Even the few people that we really want
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that I haven't moved here. They're all coming here all
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the time. It's like a Vegas residency. I apologize here
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to mister Dorfman, who works for Outback and is quoted here.
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Somewhere in my collection of the notes, I lost mister
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Dorfmann's first name, and I keep googling out Back Dorfman,
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and all that comes up is a hat you would
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wear in the Australian desert. But mister Dorfman said, it's
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easy to say Austin. But the truth of Mather is
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over the years, La or New York were the gatekeepers,
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and now there are no gatekeepers. You're watching the best
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at a craft just put their stuff out there and
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let the people decide. Before, in order to get the
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word out, there had to be somebody who tell you
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who was good and not well, the people have decided.
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We did twenty six thousand people in Madison Square Garden.
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This is the greatest moment comedy's ever seen, and it's
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because the comedians are running this. Alex Murray agrees and
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said Comedy Central made a lot of comedy shows that
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people watched. It launched comedy stars and created new careers.
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It was a whole thing. But viewing habits changed during COVID.
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People started migrating the YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, watching on their
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phones and Tony show. It was literally the only comedy
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show that was meaningful, original, fun and cool that exists.
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Did The audience felt like they discovered the show organically.
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It wasn't ever promoted or marketed to them. I can't
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even remember how I discovered Kill Tony. And I think
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Alex Murray brings up a good point. Comedy Central boy,
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I mean, and I helped launch Comedy Central Radio, that
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brand you know in the aughts, super strong. What Happened
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The next Killed Tony live stream is at Resorts World
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Arena in Las Vegas at September twenty fifth. They're also
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working on a New Year's Eve show. I could see
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a pay per view coming, can't you. Yeah, Now that
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the show's popular, the big streamers are coming. And Tony said,
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I'm just happy to have complete creative control and not
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have to deal with network notes from some executive or director.
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Everybody's listening to me, and that's why I think it works.
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It's not watered down by a bunch of other people's
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opinions or any old school stuff that's going to drag
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it down, make it to safe, or make it resemble
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anything else. It's brutally original, even though it's technically a
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talent show slash open mic. It's so raw because truly
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anything can happen, and everything is improvised. It maintains its loose, dangerous,
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live feel, and it's too late for anybody to catch up.
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Nobody can even do a rip off of the show
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because they have to play. It's safe. If you look
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at your American idols, and your America got talent, and
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it's made for grandmas and grandpa's. It's meant to be
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on the TV at nursing homes. No cool eighteen year
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olds want to watch that. Meanwhile, you got eighteen year
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olds watching kill Tony with their parents, watching with their grandparents,
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and everybody's entertained. Man, that kill Tony article is longer
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than I thought. All right, let's bounce a whole bunch
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of things. How about this from the Express News from
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Maria Bamford. Whenever Maria Bamford wants to try out new material,
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she asks her fans for help, She'll put out a
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call on Twitter offering a T shirt to anybody who's
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time to meet for a cup of coffee or over
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zoom and listen to her to go through her act.
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Bamford said, the great thing about human beings is that
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if you give people an opportunity to be delightful, they
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often are delightful. So anytime I've met with somebody, it's
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been really fun. Also, it's a public form, so they've
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said in some way, I'd like to do this, and
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I'm a fan. It's not like it's pushed upon them,
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which is my least favorite kind of comedy, which is
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ambush comedy. She notes that some might be misled by
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her looks. She says, I'm a white cis heater, a
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woman in my fifties. They might think they might be
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able to relate to her point of view. She said,
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maybe not. You might want to google it. I'm the
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used bookstore of comedy. I probably won't have what you want,
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but I'm pleasant and I try to find you who
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you might want, and I bet it's someone else, and
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I've been sitting on this one from the av Club,
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Rosalind Chow talked about her time on Mash and After Mash.
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Remember she was on the last few seasons of Mash
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and then both seasons of After Mash, and then later
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she was on Star Trek the Next Generation. Rosalind said, Mash,
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that's kind of one of my first real things, And
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I think that's one of the reasons people on the internet.
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I think I'm like eighty years old because I got
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hired and then I got fired. Unbeknownst to me. When
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my paperwork came in, they basically said I needed to
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be ten years older than I actually was to be
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able to keep the part, and I obviously wanted a job,
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so I said whatever they needed me to say to
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be able to regain the role. So that's why I'm
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eighty or wherever old people think I am. My lawyer
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just asked if I want to have a change. I
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was like, you know, well, they have considered me for
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three body problem if they knew I'm not really an
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old lady, so I don't want to jinx it. You know,
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how old is she? Actually? I didn't think she was eighty.
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Let's see, let me do loose math before I look
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it up. All right, Mash ended in nineteen eighty two,
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So if I make her, I'm doing lazy math here
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from I make her twenty in nineteen eighty two, she's sixty.
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If I make her twenty five, she's like sixty seven.
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I'm gonna guess she's like sixty seven. Is seventy sixty six?
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Not bad? Johnny Mack born September twenty third, nineteen fifty seven,
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about to be sixty seven. Johnny Mack nailed that one
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high five everyone. So if you want to be like,
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she's only sixty six, you listen to this podcast tomorrow.
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She's like sixty seven, is what I said. She's sixty
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six and three sixty four, three sixty fifths close enough. Oh,
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I'm glad I slipped that in today. I see that
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was fun, accidental whatever the Evy Club said. Hey with
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After Mash, I heard it was being pitched as a